Hi,

I am using gdc for a while now. I was never able to use gdb in combination with D, which makes it hard to debug segfaults.

When I invoke gdb on a d executable I get:

../../gdb-6.3/gdb/dwarf2read.c:5446: internal-error: could not find partial DIE in cache

Although I can continue the debugging session there are a lot warnings about missing debug symbols and I can't get any information from backtraces since they seem to contain only garbage, at least I can't explain why there are several calls to 0x00000000 :)

I tried gdb on dmd, gdc 0.10 and 0.11pre1 (with gcc-3.4.3) executables. gdb version is 6.3, I used the debian version and after this didn't work I recompiled a clean gdb-6.3 using the fresh compiled gcc-3.4.3 which didn't work too.

Has someone had the same error and was able to resolve it? Any hints are appreciated.

Regards
- Torben

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:18:35 +0200, Thomas Kuehne wrote:

> gdb-6.0-2mdk (the official Mandrake build) has works most of the times.

I tried gdb 6.0 and it works out of the box.

> Did you "make test" when you recompiled gdb 6.3?

There is no "test" target :(

Just to make sure that I am not stupid, I compiled 6.3 the same way I compiled 6.0 just now. Fortunately it still doesn't work :)

Thanks
- Torben

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Torben Gleich schrieb am Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:10:23 +0200:
> Hi,
>
> I am using gdc for a while now. I was never able to use gdb in combination with D, which makes it hard to debug segfaults.
>
> When I invoke gdb on a d executable I get:
>
> ../../gdb-6.3/gdb/dwarf2read.c:5446: internal-error: could not find partial DIE in cache
>
> Although I can continue the debugging session there are a lot warnings about missing debug symbols and I can't get any information from backtraces since they seem to contain only garbage, at least I can't explain why there are several calls to 0x00000000 :)
>
> I tried gdb on dmd, gdc 0.10 and 0.11pre1 (with gcc-3.4.3) executables. gdb version is 6.3, I used the debian version and after this didn't work I recompiled a clean gdb-6.3 using the fresh compiled gcc-3.4.3 which didn't work too.
>
> Has someone had the same error and was able to resolve it? Any hints are appreciated.

gdb-6.0-2mdk (the official Mandrake build) works most of the time.

Did you "make test" when you recompiled gdb 6.3?

Thomas


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Torben Gleich schrieb am Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:39:37 +0200:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:18:35 +0200, Thomas Kuehne wrote:
>
>> gdb-6.0-2mdk (the official Mandrake build) has works most of the times.
>
> I tried gdb 6.0 and it works out of the box.
>
>> Did you "make test" when you recompiled gdb 6.3?
>
> There is no "test" target :(

sorry "make check".

Thomas

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